It was here that locals betrayed their identity to the authorities, leading to the shoot out as immortalized in the film. Afterward the pair headed for San Vicente, turning up on the night of November 6, 1908, seeking shelter. The last ever job turned out to be a strike on the payroll of the Aramayo mining company near the southern Bolivian town of Tupiza. Letters written by Butch from the time suggest the pair were looking for one last job before retiring and buying a cattle range near the frontier town of Santa Cruz in tropical southeastern Bolivia. They spent several years working as law-abiding cattle ranchers in Patagonia before returning to a life of crime in Bolivia. So, here are the facts: Butch and Sundance fled to South America in 1901 to evade pursuit from the Pinkerton Detective Agency (later to become the FBI), following a string of bank raids on the Union Pacific railroad. Sundance reportedly met his maker numerous times between 19 in Venezuela, Chile and Argentina. While officially the pair met their end in San Vicente Canton, Bolivia, conflicting reports suggest Butch was stabbed in the slums of Paris, whacked after a bank raid in Uruguay and ate lead in a New Mexico brothel.
Indeed, the legend of Butch and Sundance is a highly confused one: most people don’t even realize that the pair were even real people, while the rumor mill has for years fueled conspiracy theories about their eventual fate. Today, a scrappy unmarked grave in a remote Bolivian pueblo offers little hint to the romantic notions of the bandit’s escapades. Searching for the Butch Cassidy Bolivia Gravesite
The tale was adapted for the 1969 film, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford, which turned the tale of the Wild Bunch outlaws who fled to South America with US$1,000 rewards on their heads into the stuff of Hollywood legend. The story of Butch Cassidy and his sidekick, The Sundance Kid, is one of the great tales of the American Wild West. In San Vicente Canton, Bolivia, the trail of the Legendary Outlaws was F0llowedĬontest Winner 2005 Felix Charlar Miranda has a collection of Butch memorabilia in San Vicente Canton, Bolivia.
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